Research interests/objectives of laboratory:

Ø Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in disturbed marine environments

Ø Identification and cataloging of marine phytoplankton, zooplankton and soft bottom macro, meio benthic fauna from the Sundarban Estuarine System (SES)

Ø Benthic-pelagic linking approach to delineate near shore benthic populations

Ø Consequences of environmental heterogeneity, particularly hydrodynamic phenomena, on larval behavior, larval transport, larval dispersal, settlement, recruitment and population dynamics and ecology of near shore benthic species

Ø Polar Benthic Biodiversity

Ø Effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on physiological responses of few economically shellfishes of SES 

Ø Ecological modelling of SES